Southern Africa

Overview

AEL's Southern Africa business merges cutting edge technologies with proven explosive practices to offer innovative blasting solutions to a sophisticated, diverse and mature customer base across the region, including Namibia and Lesotho.

AEL's strategy is to remain the leading explosive company in South Africa by delivering value added optimised services that maximise customers' efficiencies, operating off a competitive and cost efficient base AEL is continually building and enhancing its extensive product range and technology platform to meet the demands of its customers and the changing environment.

South Africa’s mineral riches offer a complex mining landscape - from small to substantial quarrying operations; massive open pit and surface mines where high volumes of explosives are needed to narrow veined mines requiring high volumes of initiating systems. Some mines operate at extreme depths or high altitudes with inherent extreme temperatures. AEL has become adept at developing unique and customised explosives' solutions for any application in the most remote areas.

With an extensive team of highly skilled mining engineers and professionals strategically based across the region and within close proximity to customers' sites, AEL's large Modderfontein complex is the base for servicing this market, together with bulk storage satellite depots providing fast turnaround times for on bench loading. This infrastructural capacity facilitates the ramping up of production to suit customers' demands.

AEL's broader exposure to international markets impacts positively on the local operation and vice versa, marrying best global practices with over a century of experience in the robust African environment.